Hi Donna,

Well, given the amount of paperwork around here, a binder clip is handy and surprisingly powerful.

I managed to get the damn thing off once, but it took two feeble hands to do it.

Then I made the mistake of mentioning this to the nice Occupational Therapist, who immediately excused herself and came back in a minute or two with three damned binder clips that she wants me to squeeze.

In other news, Kaiser Insurance has tried to discharge me three times.

I won the first two appeals because the doctor reviewing the situation noticed that both my tibial plateaus are shattered, so are the ends of my ulna and humerus, I'm non-weight-bearing, and have CLL.

All these points, however, escaped the latest physician to review my case, who seems to think that I have a few simple fractures and am in fact up and walking with the aid of a walker. He doesn't mention the leukemia.

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I'm reminded ot one of Dashiell Hammet's 29 observations on his career with the Pinkerton Agency:

"21. The chief of police of a Southern city once gave me a description of a man, complete even to the mole on his neck, but neglected to mention that he had only one arm."

The other 28 are fun to read:

http://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/film/Hammett.htm

Cheers,

Carl Fogel